Search resultsUsing the Insert Clip Art task pane, you can quickly and easily find photographs, drawings, sound effects, music, videos, and other media files — called clips— to use in Microsoft Office documents.
You can search for clips by entering search keywords or phrases in normal, everyday language — for example, "buildings" or "people at work." If you find a clip that is close to what you're looking for, you can find more clips based on a similar artistic style.
If you want to narrow your search, you can specify the clip collections you want to search or ignore, or choose to search only for certain types of media files.
Search results
As soon as you start a search, the Insert Clip Art task pane begins listing thumbnails of drawings, photos, sounds, and other media files.
If a clip isn't installed on your computer, you'll see an icon in the lower-left corner of the thumbnail that tells you where the clip can be found.
| Icon | Clip location |
|---|---|
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CD-ROM or DVD |
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Microsoft Web site |
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Microsoft Partner Web site (free) |
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Microsoft Partner Web site (available for purchase) |
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Unavailable |
If a clip is an animated gif, you'll see this icon in the lower-right corner of the thumbnail: 
Search tips
You can use everyday language to describe the clip you want to find. The following guidelines can help you refine keyword searches.
| Type this keyword | To find |
|---|---|
| car | Clips with "car"as the exact search keyword |
| blue car | Clips with the search key words "blue" and "car" |
| "blue car" | Clips with the phrase "blue car" |
| blue, car | Clips with the search key word "blue" or "car" |
You can also search by entering the file name of the media clip you want to find. If you don't know the exact file name, you can substitute wildcard characters for one or more real characters.
Use the asterisk (*) as a substitute for zero or more characters in a file name. For example, type car*.jpg to locate file names like "cardboard.jpg"or "carton.jpg".
Use the question mark (?) as a substitute for a single character in a file name. For example, type car?.jpg to locate file names like "car1.jpg" or "car2.jpg", but not "carton.jpg".
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Clip Organizer window
If you don't find what you need by using the Insert Clip Art task pane, you can open the main Clip Organizer window, where you can browse through organized collections of media clips. The clips in Clip Organizer are sorted into collections — for example, Office Collections contains the media files that are included as part of Microsoft Office.
Clip Organizer has its own Help system, where you'll find such information as how to organize your clips in collections, how to assign keywords to clips for easy searching, and how to work with the Clip Organizer by using shortcut keys.